Countries
European Union, Finland
  
European Union, Slovenia
  
National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
  
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
  
Second Language
Estonia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
  
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
- The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
  
Serbo-Croatian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Moi
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Kiitos
  
Hvala
  
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
  
Kako se imate?
  
Good Night
hyvää yötä
  
Lahko noč
  
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
  
Dober večer
  
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
  
Dober dan
  
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
  
Dobro jutro
  
Please
haluta
  
Prosim
  
Sorry
Anteeksi
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
Heippa
  
Nasvidenje
  
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
  
Ljubim te
  
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
  
Oprostite
  
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
  
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Where They Speak
Finland
  
Hungary, Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Rauma
  
Resian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
  
Italy
  
Dialect 3
Meänkieli
  
Styrian
  
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
  
Slovenia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
5.40 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.40 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
0.01 million
  
39
Not Available
  
Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
  
Not available
  
Alternative Names
Suomi
  
Slovenian, Slovenscina
  
French Name
finnois
  
slovène
  
German Name
Finnisch
  
Slowenisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
  
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
  
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
  
Slovenes
  
Origin
1543
  
972-1093
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
  
Slovene
  
Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fi
  
sl
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fin
  
slv
  
ISO 639 2/B
fin
  
slv
  
ISO 639 3
fin
  
slv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
finn1318
  
slov1268
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-f
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
Fusional
  
Finnish and Slovene Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Finnish and Slovene greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Slovene language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Slovene word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Slovene Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Finnish vs Slovene Difficulty
The Finnish vs Slovene difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Slovene Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Finnish and Slovene are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Slovene, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Slovene time required is 44 weeks.